Witches & Brew is a carb-lovers' cavern, but we have to quibble: the tables & chairs are basically awkwardly placed crates, making it a hassle for sitting & savoring one's meal. Many customers might feel compelled to take away the food instead.

Witches & Brew serves cakes supplied by home baker Multiply.F (follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Multiply.f), including one of the Klang Valley's best, creamiest carrot cakes, rich with bright root veggies & beautifully tinged with nutmeg.

Chocolate pistachio cake laced with apricots, also available at Pudu's VCR Cafe, the only other eatery that currently carries Multiply.F (the cakes are also available for order through Facebook). These cakes are noticeably lower in sugar; not a bad thing.

Sodas (which seem to come complimentary with the sandwich, come to think of it) & coffee are offered at Witches & Brew, which is located on Avenue K's lower concourse, as is Urbean. Key restaurants on the mall's higher levels are so far not launched.

Where there's a mall, there's now also EspressoLab, situated unfortunately beside Urbean. Other familiar names on these lower levels include The Loaf, Krispy Kreme, Swensens, Old Town White Coffee, Cupcake Chic & Marutama Ramen.

Urbean Coffee + Witches & Brew Sandwich Bar,

Lower Concourse, Avenue K, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.

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Missyblurkit: yay, i totally empathize, since my current office is less than a 10-minute drive from Avenue K! i need more F&B options too! hope you enjoy both the coffee at Urbean & the sandwiches and cakes at Witches & Brew :D

Thank you for the review on Witches & Brew. Please do come back and taste the full range of our" sandwitches". We use good quality bread from Carpenter's Daughter. Their breads are gluten free & made from unbleached organic flour. We also combine local & imported herbs such as daun kesum, mint, dill, basil etc into our wicked sandwitches to give you a new sandwitch experience. Hope I have tempted you to come back again........

Jess: thanks for sharing the info about the bread and ingredients. i like the Carpenter's Daughter, and i didn't know your bread comes from that source. it all sounds good, and i'll aim to try some of your other sandwiches another time. the herbs definitely sound tempting =)

Thanks for the comments on Urbean! Yes, you were right about the first day anxiety with the staff... but we hope that its much more relaxed atmosphere in Urbean now. And we've ramped up our coffee training with the help of great baristas so I hope we are closer to delivering the perfect cup of coffee! We've got some new cakes which are all made by Tokyo Pastry and are really amazing.Hope to see you again soon - next week when we should have our full menu up and running with sandwiches, salads and hot dishes.

Sher Lynn: thanks so much for responding to our first impression, and for the reassurance that you guys are working hard to be a great coffee bar. am definitely looking forward to returning. i have a feeling that we'll be hearing a lot of good things about urbean in the months to come =)

i am sold again sean.. am so taking my own lunchbox to 'tapau' the wickedly delicious looking carrot cake.. n i hopefully Urbean is not too strict on 'No outside food' allow when i pair up the cake with the coffee... can't wait.... :D

Whoisnell: ooo, good luck with that... could be tricky, since urbean also offers cakes. but yeah, that carrot cake was one of my dessert highlights of the week. it might even rank among my top three carrot cakes sold in KL :D